People Gothic Poems

Ghost


Fear,
Bewilderment,
Tension,
Disbelief,
Denial

Emotions,
All of which 
Can be evoked
Following the use
Of the word in question,
No matter the situation

Like those occasions
When you find yourself
Sitting up in bed
In the midst...

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I see beauty 
In the darkness. 
I can see what people can't.
Dark and spooky is 
Beautiful to me. 
I see the beauty 
In things that...

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stoic or mourning
in a time of depression
or keepers of secrets
with a hostile divide?

why daylit drawn curtains
made from fabric she's wearing
and 'mother-in-law's tongue'
on the porch to...

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Lurching out of the door into darkness 
A street full of people, bodies pass n collide

Plunging from dark to light!

Not looking at or thinking of...

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Here's a tale from the West.
as regards an unnamed man, who is the best.
He commutes by motorcycle day and night.
assisting the communities in need of...

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Books people read,Vance:faces,
On plain ones future crime traces;
How does he this a mystery
What is obvious: plain mastery!
Today's suspects later felons
In the act caught with their...

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Corned beef

25 years ago, I found in the attic of a small hotel
briefly used as headquarter by British troops after
the war, a tin of bully...

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twixt and tween spirituality and religion
a black heart collector devours pure souls
it creeps in during the night while people slumber
gifting doubts, worries and fears to...

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The missing video
 
I saw them dance on the other side of the river
I saw a burning sky turning dark as a black dot on...

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...She looked at him with a sneer and a snarl,
Then looked off to the priest with venom eyes,
Only to look back and rage at Marton,
“You...

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When Marton awoke from the deep haze
he didn’t quite know at first where he was,
and last remembered beers at the tavern,
but then nothing…and what could...

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I dream to be Hannibal
But my neighbor Cannibal…
Hannibal might be A Failure 
But he`d owned some Tense Tenure:
A Nightmare to Tough Roman,
Some shaking like A...

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We maneuver moonlight with such finesse
they often call us children of darkness;  
I touched the copper dripping from my fangs
upon my lips this liquid...

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Night 3
It’s still in my garden.
It’s back with a vengeance.
I can it see it there, lurking:
face black and white, its tail mocking.
Three nights in a...

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alone
in a crowded room 
people pass faces glance 
void they are… 
 
no thought to anyone's soul 
or ponderings of creation 
just shells walking in...

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